Load Testing Jobs in England

Load Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Load Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Load Testing over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 642 774 834
Rank change year-on-year +132 +60 +78
Permanent jobs citing Load Testing 17 61 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.035% 0.069% 0.088%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.037% 0.082% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 15 52 47
10th Percentile - £32,500 £37,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,125 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £113,750 £78,382
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -9.52% -5.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Load Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,650 74,784 82,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.04% 84.16% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 22,641 54,521 49,313
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,000 £34,334
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Load Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Load Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Load Testing in England

Load Testing
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Load Testing in England.

Salary trend for Load Testing in England

Load Testing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Load Testing in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Load Testing in England

Load Testing
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Load Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +86 9 £65,000 -3.70% 37
South East +96 5 £42,500 - 96
South West +113 1 £47,500 -32.14% 49
West Midlands +48 1 - - 40
Midlands +48 1 - - 75
North of England +33 1 - - 83
North West 0 1 - - 37
Load Testing
UK

Load Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Azure
1 10 (58.82%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (35.29%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) GitHub
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (17.65%) Power Automate
4 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
4 3 (17.65%) PowerApps
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (11.76%) GCP
5 2 (11.76%) Serverless
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (5.88%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) MySQL
1 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (64.71%) Postman
2 8 (47.06%) Cypress.io
3 6 (35.29%) JMeter
4 5 (29.41%) JIRA
4 5 (29.41%) Selenium
4 5 (29.41%) SoapUI
4 5 (29.41%) TestComplete
5 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
5 3 (17.65%) Mocha
5 3 (17.65%) MSTest
5 3 (17.65%) NUnit
5 3 (17.65%) SpecFlow
6 2 (11.76%) Gatling
6 2 (11.76%) Git
6 2 (11.76%) GitLab
6 2 (11.76%) REST Assured
6 2 (11.76%) TestRail
7 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
7 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.88%) Games
4 1 (5.88%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) QA Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Software QA Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Lead
2 3 (17.65%) QA Leader
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
2 3 (17.65%) Test Leader
2 3 (17.65%) Tester
3 2 (11.76%) Integration Tester
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Developer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Backend Developer
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Games Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Swagger
1 4 (23.53%) WebdriverIO
2 3 (17.65%) Jest
2 3 (17.65%) Kafka
2 3 (17.65%) Playwright
2 3 (17.65%) REST
2 3 (17.65%) Web Services
3 2 (11.76%) JWT
3 2 (11.76%) OAuth
3 2 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (11.76%) SAML
4 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.88%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (5.88%) Node.js
4 1 (5.88%) OpenAPI
4 1 (5.88%) Sass
4 1 (5.88%) Spring
4 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.88%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Test Automation
2 12 (70.59%) DevOps
3 10 (58.82%) Agile
4 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
4 8 (47.06%) Microservices
5 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (41.18%) Regression Testing
6 5 (29.41%) Exploratory Testing
6 5 (29.41%) Security Testing
6 5 (29.41%) Test Strategy
6 5 (29.41%) Validation
7 4 (23.53%) Acceptance Criteria
7 4 (23.53%) End-to-End Testing
7 4 (23.53%) Manual Testing
7 4 (23.53%) Non-Functional Testing
7 4 (23.53%) Software Testing
8 3 (17.65%) Code Quality
8 3 (17.65%) Performance Testing
8 3 (17.65%) Test Scripting
8 3 (17.65%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) SQL
2 10 (58.82%) JavaScript
3 5 (29.41%) Python
4 4 (23.53%) TypeScript
5 3 (17.65%) C#
6 2 (11.76%) PHP
7 1 (5.88%) Apex Code
7 1 (5.88%) Bash
7 1 (5.88%) Java
7 1 (5.88%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) ISTQB
1 5 (29.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 3 (17.65%) Degree
3 2 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (58.82%) QA
2 3 (17.65%) GDPR
3 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Google
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle
1 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
1 1 (5.88%) Siebel
1 1 (5.88%) Splunk